Co Down comedian Patrick Kielty and his wife Cat Deeley are to raise their baby in LA.

The pair, who announced they were expecting their first child after three years of marriage, split their time between America and the UK.

Cat, 38, has become the darling of Hollywood after landing the role of presenter on hit US TV show So You Think You Can Dance.

She spends most of her time in LA while Dundrum funnyman Kielty jets back and forth.

Now Cat has confirmed the pair are to bring up their child in America.

"We're going to take the baby back home to visit our families as much as possible but for now we're happy here in LA and are excited to bring up our child with an outdoors lifestyle," the 38-year-old told Closer magazine.

"They are going to enjoy the LA sunshine Patrick and I never got to experience."

But it's unclear if her 44-year-old husband feels the same as it has been reported that Kielty told talkSPORT he wasn't sure he wanted to raise the couple's child among the "hippy-dippy" people of California.

He reportedly said: "It's a worry. The missus is pregnant at the minute and that's a decision we're going to have to make.

"You have a lot of hippy-dippy people out there. Quite a lot of Americans who don't have any answers and don't know what they're doing head west, and then they get to the point where they reach the (Californian) beach and can't really run any further."

He added: "I thought to myself: 'I've got myself out of a small village in Northern Ireland and spent a bit of time on the beach in California'.

"My life was happy, and you're going to have a kid there and your life is going to be rubbish."